Section outline

  • Lecture:  Selection Bias
     

    Faculty:  Dr ER Mayeda

    Location:  Mission Hall 1406

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    • Required Reading:

      1. Hernán, M.A. & Robins, J.M. (2016). Chapter 8: Selection bias. Causal Inference. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, forthcoming.
      2. Howe, L.D., Tilling, K., Galobardes, B., & Lawlor, D.A. (2013). Loss to follow-up in cohort studies: bias in estimates of socioeconomic inequalities.Epidemiology, 24(1), 1-9.
      3. Lajous, M., Banack, H.R., Kaufman, J.S., & Hernán, M.A. (2015). Should patients with chronic disease be told to gain weight? The obesity paradox and selection bias. The American journal of medicine, 128(4), 334-336.

       

    • Required Readings on Selection Bias Folder

    • Optional Reading:

      1. Hernán M.A., Hernández-Díaz S, Robins J.M. A structural approach to selection bias. Epidemiology. 2004;15(5):615-625.
      2. Mayeda E.R., Tchetgen Tchetgen E.J., Power M.C., et al. A simulation platform to quantify survival bias: an application to research on determinants of cognitive decline. American Journal of Epidemiology. In press.
      3. Appendix for Howe et al. paper
    • Optional Readings Folder

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • slides re selection bias File
    • IV slides revise File